Bill Maher and Anderson Cooper sat down recently to discuss Islamic extremism. I assume this conversation is happening because of the recent censored South Park episode. Comedy Central was afraid there would be some type of reprisal from extremists, so they censored the episode and totally wussed out. The silver lining though, is that now we are having a national discussion about how far behind Islam is and how it really doesn’t seem to belong in the modern world.

Maher is saying some important things, things that people in Europe are afraid to say to the increasing Muslim population. It might just sound like shock humor but it’s the truth, do some research! Islam is kind of in a fucked up period where they are in a modern world with dark age-era laws and rules.

It seems that wherever a Muslim population increases, so do honor-killings and other odd culture related behavior. Not everything in Islam is weird but the subjugation of women is a mental problem, not a cultural trait.

Ayaan Hirsi discusses this in her biography Infidel. Its an incredible book and I recommend people check it out to understand the controversy behind south park and why Comedy Central was so afraid.

Hirsi was Muslim(fixed) but became Christian after escaping Kenya for Europe and then, finally, she became an Atheist in America. In her book, she chronicles the death of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh. Hirsi worked with him on the film Submission. It criticized Islam’s treatment of women. It greatly angered some people and a man ran up to Van Gogh on the street and killed him with a butcher’s knife. Starting to understand Comedy Central’s fears? Ayaan tells the honest truth about Islam, in 2007 she came on the Colbert Report to talk with Stephen:

Ayaan has lived in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethopia, Kenya, Europe, and the US. She was in the Dutch Parliament and at that time she was also getting death threats for speaking out. In her book she tells how she never understood the rules of Islam as a child and she knew it was unjust, everyone knows it’s unjust.. and yet eveyone is too afraid to say anything. The ones that do are silenced.

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Uzair on May 6th, 2010 at 3:37 pm

Wow, you’re betraying your bias and ignorance in so many ways here. I’m listing a few below:
- On the one hand, you recognise that honour killings etc. are ‘cultural’ behaviour, yet in the very next sentence you suggest that it’s ‘a mental problem, not a cultural trait’. Ignoring the fact that those two statements are contradictory, the fact remains that the acts are not endorsed by Islam, but are cultural, occurring mostly in South Asian communities. Are they deplorable? Yes. Are they based on Islamic law or principle? No.
- Hirsi was never ‘Islamic’; she was a Muslim. She is also recognised by most as one of the most opportunistic, calculating women around. Her entire career — including the stint as a Dutch MP that you seem to tout as evidence of her veracity or reliability — has been about exchanging principle to further her own career, including suspected illegal activity in securing her Dutch citizenship, and ditching the Netherlands for a cushy thinktank job in the US when newspapers started asking her questions about it.
- Maher’s comments don’t deserve a response. However, I will say that ignorant, bigoted humour does little to further the sort of intellectual exchanges we need to get Muslims and Westerners to see eye to eye. In particular, lectures from xenophobic Americans who foisted practically all of their current problems upon themselves by repeatedly backing fascist strongmen, thereby suppressing the development of political and intellectual thought in third-world countries, in order to conquer markets and further their imperialistic objectives at *any* cost are unwelcome. There’s an order of magnitude difference between the number of people who have perished in terrorist attacks and those who have been killed by the systematic application of American policy.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

You make a great point, that statement was contradictory and I wasn’t sure of it. I guess it is both a cultural trait and a mental problem.
Maher comes from the prospective of an atheist.. as do I. I don’t think Christianity is much better.. but it is true that Islam in the middle east seems to be very barbaric and behind in the times. Religion is the problem, not Islam.
I believe that everyone should get a fair shot and I don’t think Muslim’s are “evil” or something. I just think that Islam needs a revolution that’s more about humanity than religion. They need to stand up to the crazy people. The clerics should not be in positions of power, it’s like the dark ages.
I hate American Imperialism and things could be so much better now if American hadn’t meddled with the affairs of other countries. I agree with you there.
Thanks for the intelligent response. I disagree about Ayaan but agree with alot of what you said.